Television Review : ‘American Horror Story’ on FX - Review

Television Review : ‘American Horror Story’ on FX - Review

If you like the jar with the baby’s leg, wait until you see the jar holding the baby’s head. If one actress with Down syndrome doesn’t provide enough Tod Browning-style otherness for you, don’t worry — there are two. If the line about snorting cocaine off a high school girl’s nipples doesn’t do it for you, maybe the scene of the sobbing naked man masturbating will.

And if the fact that half his face has been burned off doesn’t make Denis O’Hare’s character creepily sympathetic enough for you, how about this: He has brain cancer too!

One of the early questions about “American Horror Story”on FX has been whether fans of the chirpy Fox musical series “Glee” would follow the producers and writers Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk to a new show billed as an extreme (for television) creepfest. Based on Wednesday’s premiere, the Gleeks should feel perfectly at home with “Horror Story.” The similarities are greater than the differences, and they start with the love of excess that stretches through “Glee” and back to the first Murphy-Falchuk collaboration, “Nip/Tuck.” Read More...